- former Fox Engine director Julien Merceron who now works with Namco talked to DualShockers and gave some information on how much involvement Kojima, now on permanent vacation from Konami, has in the games he makes.

- DualShockers shared the following information:

Merceron didn’t really know what to expect from Hideo Kojima, as he knew him just as a friend. Since he did a lot of public relations and marketing, Merceron thought that maybe he was like a figurehead, with a lot of underlings doing everything from him, like game design and narrative design.

When they started to work together, Merceron was absolutely amazed. Kojima-san takes care of everything himself. He does marketing, Creativity on P.T “from A to Z,” the same with Metal Gear, he worked on the game design and on the story. Something not many knoz is that after Metal Gear Solid 4 was finished and work on Fox Engine started Kojima-san was among those who designed the technology. He’s a true technology enthusiast, and he wanted an engine that could represent him and that allowed him to deliver the experiences he aspired to create.

At first Merceron thought he would have to talk to Kojima-san in very simple terms, but that wasn’t the case at all. Kojima-san was beyond his expectations in everything: in the ideas he had, in his passion for his work, in his knowledge of technology, and even more so in his mastery of his vision. According to Merceron, he has never met anyone else who knows exactly how his game is going to look like before even seeing it.

- Kojima is working in a PS4 console exclusive game with his new independent studio Kojima Productions.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/12/24/hideo-kojima-works-on-everything-himself-former-fox-engine-lead-tells-his-experience-working-with-him/

In case you had doubts of how much we owe the man himself for how his games turn out.

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And why his game take time to release when he oversees lots of details.

Very talented indeed. Im happy he went to Sony. I hope his new game will be better than the Metal Gear Solid series.

I hope he goes for something war-related like MGS and outdo what he accomplished with the MGS series.

Kojima the best

Kojima is a beast

I heard a lot of DualShockers news lately, is DualShockers become the next IGN or Kotaku or what o_O ? lelelelel.
Tho, this is a very great and interesting news :).
Good read.

I dunno, what he says still makes it sound like a figurehead with a lot of people doing stuff for him. He just makes sure they do them exactly like he wants it and he has enough knowledge to challenge them.

That is the importance of a director. If you have different people working on their own, with their own idea of how the project should go, chances are the end result will be a cluster-fuck that doesn't fit in together. Kojima seems to come up with a direction and is very communicative of this idea to the people working behind him. Plus he works the story.

Merceron makes it look like Kojima goes way and beyond what could be the norm in the involvement of a project from someone in his same position.

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